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Personal data Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham 

• He was born on February 3, 1478 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales.
• (Title (Facts Pg)) in 3rd Duke Of Buckingham.
• He died on May 17, 1521 in Tower of London, Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England, Great Britain, he was 43 years old.

  Oorzaak: Beheaded

• A child of Henry de Stafford and Catherine Woodville
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham

He is married to Eleanore Percy.

They got married about 1490.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Stafford  1496-1558 
2. Catherine Stafford  ± 1490-1529 
3. Mary Stafford  ± 1495-± 1540 
4. Henry Stafford  1501-1563 

Notes about Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham

E: STAFFORD
(3rd D. Buckingham)
Born: 3 Feb 1478, Brecknock Castle, Wales, England
Died: 1521, Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England
Notes: Knight of the Garter <../Documents/Knights of the Garter.htm>.
Father: Henry STAFFORD (2° D. Buckingham) <../ D. Buckingham).htm>
Mother: Catherine WOODVILLE (D. Buckingham/D. Bedford) <../%20WOODVILLE%20(D.%20Buckingham/D. Bedford).htm>
Married: Eleanor <../ PERCY (D. Buckingham).htm> PERCY (D. Buckingham) <../ PERCY (D. Buckingham).htm> 14 Dec 1490
Children:
1. Elizabeth STAFFORD (D. Norfolk) <../ STAFFORD (D. Norfolk).htm>
2. Henry STAFFORD (1° B. Stafford) <../ B. Stafford).htm>
3. Margaret STAFFORD <../ STAFFORD0.htm>
4. Mary STAFFORD (B. Abergavenny) <../ STAFFORD (B. Abergavenny).htm>
5. Catherine STAFFORD (C. Westmoreland) <../ STAFFORD (C. Westmoreland).htm>

Son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. His father was attainted and executed for rebelling against King Richard III of England when Stafford was five. When Henry VII <../aboutHenryVII.htm> ascended the throne, the attainder was reversed and the wardship of the young Duke was given to the King <../aboutHenryVII.htm>'s mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond . As a young man, Stafford was made a Knight of the Garter (1495), and had various ceremonial roles at the royal court. This continued in an even grander way with the accession of Henry VIII <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>: Stafford became Lord High Constable <../Documents/lord_high_constable.htm>, Lord High Steward <../Documents/lord_high_steward.htm>, and a privy councilor, and was lord high steward at Henry <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>'s coronation in 1509, where he also carried the King <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>'s crown.
BEF 1500 he married Eleanor, eldest daughter of Henry Percy, fourth Earl of Northumberland . They had one son, Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and four daughters. In 1509, he was made a Lord High Constable. In 1513, he was a Captain in the English Army fighting in France.
Despite his high status and royal bloodlines, Buckingham was not a courtier except by royal command; his preference was to live in high estate in the west of the realm, exercising his authority as warden of the Welsh Marches. His children's marriages gave Buckingham wide connections within the nobility and made him a potentially powerful force in politics. Yet pride may have stood in the way of Edward Stafford's political influence. Although Buckingham appeared to be high in the favor of Henry VIII <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>, the King <../aboutHenryVIII.htm> was both jealous and suspicious of him because of his wealth, his lands, and his descent; on the paternal side he was a descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, son of Edward III, and his mother was a sister of Edward IV’s Queen. The real power in Henry VIII <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>'s court was not with the great nobles but with low-born men such as Thomas Wolsey . Stafford, with his royal blood and numerous connections by descent or marriage with the rest of the aristocracy, became a leader of the disaffected nobles excluded from high offices.
Buckingham along with other nobility had grown to resent Henry VIII <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>’s advisor. Wolsey was ‘low born’ and some of the nobility resented his influence with the King <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>. Wolsey ’s supporters had Buckingham tried for treason. The charges were listening to prophesies of the King <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>’s death and of his succession to the crown and that he had expressed an intention to kill Henry VIII <../aboutHenryVIII.htm>. Although the charges were probably false, Stafford was tried before a panel of 17 peers, but with the king's mind already decided, convinction was certain, he was executed at Tower Hill on 17th May 1521. His body was buried in the church of The Austin Friars. He was attainted by act of Parliament on 31 Jul 1523. On Friday 17 May at about eleven o’clock the Duke was delivered by the Sheriffs of London, John Kyeme and John Skevyngton, to the scaffold at Tower Hill where he was beheaded. All his land and estates became forfeit to the Crown.
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